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What's Buzzing Today: Adrian Beltre retires, cardboard addiction, big pulls and ... hot take or a not take?

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Update: It's here -- and here's your direct link.

Who wants to wait until Friday? Blowout Cards simply isn't as we're doing the ol' Black Friday thing all week long -- and Black Friday Week begins in less than 12 hours from now.

It all starts on Monday at 7 a.m. Eastern with the biggest deals in the business on tap beginning at that time and lasting as long as they can. But you shouldn't shop and run early as each day will have new deals -- and reloads -- all day long and Buzz will have Buzz Box giveaways -- boxes of free stuff -- each day, too. (Look for details on those tomorrow morning about an hour after the sale madness begins.)

While you've seen Doorbuster deals with each wave of Black November right here all month long, there's even more to come.

Like what? Keep reading for a sneak peek at some of the new deals on the way ...

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: A few breaks lead the way in this calm-before-the-storm edition ... Black Friday Week starts tomorrow.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2018 Topps Holiday Box baseball cards
Where to buy: Initially at Walmart ($19.99)

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 98
Base set completion: 
92 of 200 (46 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Andrew Benintendi, Jose Altuve, Aaron Judge, Manny Machado, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, Trea Turner, Christian Yelich, Adrian Beltre, Corey Seager, Blake Snell, Albert Pujols, Gary Sanchez, Dansby Swanson, Jose Ramirez, Kyle Schwarber, Alex Bregman

Rookie Cards (19) – Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Miles Mikolas, Fernando Romero, Tyler Mahle, Joey Lucchesi, Walker Buehler, J.P. Crawford, Gleyber Torres, Amed Rosario, Scott Kingery, Christian Villaneuva, Mike Soroka, Jordan Hicks, Willie Calhoun, Nick Kingham, Jack Flaherty, J.D. Davis, Chance Sisco

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but baseball and football chatter and breaks in this weekend edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2018 Topps High Tek (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 40
Cards in this box: 10
Base set (any pattern): 24 of 112 (21 percent)
Duplicate players (any pattern): 3

Notables on base cards – Randy Johnson, Jeff Bagwell, Alex Rodriguez, Anthony Rizzo, Jose Canseco, Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Thome, Manny Machado, Will Clark, Nolan Ryan

Rookie Cards (any pattern) (7) – Scott Kingery (2), Alex Verdugo (2), Walker Buehler, Miguel Andujar, Brandon Woodruff

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from around the collecting world, debating the centering on Prizm NFL for grading and more.

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What's 582 Montgomery Club?

It's Topps' new exclusive membership club where collectors who sign up get a crack at new cardboard inspired by the company's earlier days in Brooklyn.

"Members will receive exclusive benefits that are not available to the general public, including trading card products featuring recently discovered lost designs from our Brooklyn facility," reads a description for the program. "There will be new products sent to members six times per year, and the exclusive opportunity to purchase the highest-end trading card release ever offered on Topps.com."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Battling bad collecting habits, two 1/1s in one box and plenty of breaks in today's edition.

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We're less than 10 days away from the biggest shopping day of the year and Panini America has begun teasing its promo pack inclusions for Black Friday.

The first wave of teases -- and we'll add the rest right here as they come -- focuses on the parallels found in the eighth edition of packs for the promo packs, which will be bonuses with purchases of the company's products at participating hobby shops beginning on Nov. 23.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2018 Topps Triple Threads baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 2
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 14
Base set completion: 
6 of 100 (6 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Masahiro Tanaka, Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez, Carlos Correa

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A holiday feel for holiday cardboard? That's exactly what Topps has coming to hobby shops this week.

Topps unveiled its plans for the 2018 Topps Holiday pack program -- a bonus for making a $10 purchase on the company's cardboard at participating hobby shops.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2017 Topps Holiday Box baseball cards
Where to buy: Click here

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 98
Base set completion: 
92 of 200 (46 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Jose Altuve, Justin Verlander, Ichiro Suzuki, Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Paul Goldschmidt, Yu Dervish, Joe Mauer, Clayton Kershaw, Giancarlo Stanton, Trea Turner

Rookie Cards (24) – Aaron Judge, Alex Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Andrew Benintendi, Yoan Moncada, Ian Happ, Derek Fisher, Trey Mancini, Jake Thompson, Jordan Montgomery, Jose DeLeon, Yulieski Gurriel, Luke Weaver, Alex Reyes, Carson Fulmer, Tyler Glasnow, Bradley Zimmer, German Marquez, Josh Bell, Amir Garrett, Antonio Senzatela, Tyler Austin, Guillermo Heredia, Dinelson Lamet

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Pondering the hobby greatness of Bo Jackson and breaks from around the collecting world.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Some big pulls and a look back at an old thread in today's edition.

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A giant in the field of comic books is gone.

Stan Lee -- one of the creators behind a number of iconic super heroes and teams such as Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Iron Man, Silver Surfer and so many more -- has died. He was 95.

For years, Lee was a writer, editor and the publisher at Marvel Comics and in recent years he had worked in film, TV and other pop culture realms as a creator while also being king of cameos in many of the Marvel Studios films. His comic book career began in 1939.

"I used to think what I did was not very important," Lee told the Chicago Tribune in 2014. "People are building bridges and engaging in medical research, and here I was doing stories about fictional people who do extraordinary, crazy things and wear costumes. But I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed."

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What: 2019 Bowman baseball cards
Arrives: April 17
Box basics: Three autographs per 12-pack jumbo box (eight boxes per case); One autograph per 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman is back with another modern-looking design, some of the biggest prospects in the pipeline and some new touches that should keep prospectors busy as they chase the rainbow of Refractors and more that will be found in this one that also celebrates the 30th anniversary of Bowman's 1989 revival.

Keep reading for more info as well as a full gallery of images.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Collecting extremes -- "The hit of my life" vs. "cardboard boredom" -- pondering 2019 MLB production, rare short-prints & breaks to start the week.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but MLB chatter and NFL pulls and cards in today's edition.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Trade chatter, NFL MVP candidates, Juan Soto sightings and more in today's edition.

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Have you seen the latest cool or interesting items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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ONE SUPER PULL
The Item: Ronald Acuña Jr. 2018 Topps Chrome Superfractor autograph
The Price: $3,050 after 19 bids (more than five days remaining)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is one of the biggest cards possible in this year's Rookie Card parallel lineup without the name Ohtani attached -- and even with that this should be one of the bigs -- and this one is on the auction block as an auction via an eBay seller with a heavy buyer list and a huge presence. How big will this card go? We'll find out in a few days -- and it was big enough my plans to not have an eBay Buzz this week hit the bench in favor of this Friday-night edition.
Similar Pieces: Other Ronald Acuña Jr. autos on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2018 MLB boxes

Keep reading for four more interesting items in this week's roundup ...

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls and breaks recaps are here.

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If you've been active in the hobby on Twitter, the Blowout Cards Forums or elsewhere online in recent years, there's a good chance you've run into the work of a collector with a knack for Photoshop (he's a graphic designer) and for collecting -- and making -- Jose Canseco baseball cards.

TanManBaseballFan, aka Tanner Jones, amassed an elite collection of the famed Bash Brother and was obsessive enough about baseball cards that never were that he began creating many of them that went missing through the years for himself. Jones seemingly never met a Canseco card he didn't have -- or couldn't live without -- but, then, not long ago, he surprised many who know him with a simple statement.

It was time to sell it all. Why? Well, his story is part of a book he's working on that's coming soon -- Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but highlights from breaks and big pulls in today's edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2018 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards (mega box)
Where to buy: Initially only at Target (click here for past mega boxes)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 
25 of 100 (25 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Aaron Judge, Javier Baez, Ian Kinsler, Josh Hader, Mitch Haniger, Jose Altuve, Charlie Blackmon, Jose Bautista, J.D. Martinez, Chris Sale, Christian Yelich, Willson Contreras, Corey Kluber

Rookie Cards (12) – Walker Buehler, Gleyber Torres, Victor Robles, Chris Stratton, Michael Soroka (two different), Nick Kingham, Clint Frazier, Daniel Mengden, Willy Adames, Fernando Romero, Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

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